Field Form Controls

A Field Form Control is a Form Control that displays and stores data from a Business Object Field. Use a Field Form Control to:

• Provide data to a Business Object Field (empty record).
• View a stored value from a Business Object Field (completed record).

The Field type determines which Control is used by default to represent the Field (example: Text Fields use a Text Box). If the Field properties of an existing Field Control change after the Control has been added to a Form, you should remove and re-add the Control to the Form in order to get the correctly associated Control to display (example: If you change a Text Field to be a Rich Text Field, you should remove and re-add the Control so that the Field is represented by a Rich Text Control).

CSM supports the following types of Field Form Controls:

• Text Box: Rectangular frame into which you can type text. A Text Box Control is used with Text and Number Fields.
• Combo Box: Rectangular frame into which you can either type a value or select a validated value from a list. A Combo Box is used with validated Text and Number Fields.
• Rich Text Box: Rectangular frame into which you can type/paste Rich Text (formatted text and/or images). This Control allows access to formatting options using the Rich Text Zoom window (F8).
• Text Box with Calendar: Rectangular frame with a popup calendar, into which you can type a date or select a date from the calendar popup window.
• Number Box with Spinner: Rectangular frame into which you can either type a number or select an incremental number from a list.
• Check Box: Square box that is checked or cleared (unchecked) to indicate a binary decision (example: Enabled/disabled, on/off, yes/no).

Text, Number, Date/Time, and Logical field.

The following figure shows the Field Form Controls on a Form.